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6/09/2011 @ 11:01AM3,316 views

Job Migration: Talent Traffic

In Silicon Valley there is an arms race and the desired commodity is “talent.” So, who is winning?

The team over at topprospect decided to try and answer this question by tracking talent traffic between the major players.

Here is what they had to say:

Winning (had the most people join): Google, Facebook, Microsoft, LinkedIn and Apple

Nothing too surprising – these are companies who are killing it. Google, Microsoft and Apple are massive companies who need to hire, LinkedIn just filed for an IPO, and Facebook just had a movie made about them! Now let’s look at who wasn’t as fortunate:

Losing (had the most people leave): Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google, eBay, and Amazon

Well, you’d expect these large companies to lose a lot of employees. But what gives? Google and Microsoft can’t be both winning and losing! We wanted to see what was underneath, so the next question we asked was: how many people did each company hire for each person they lost? This is where it gets interesting:

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